Welcome to Wrestling Inside the Ropes with James Stewart.

I'm the best.

I'm the best in the world.

I've been the best ever since day one when I walked into this company and I've been vilified and hated since that day.

And Mike Sarge Riley.

I don't know if you realize it or not, but you're

trespassing of private property. When you walk through here, through these ropes, you're in my yard.

Bad things happen in my yard. Wrestling inside the ropes. Each week, you can listen to Wrestling

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Our podcasts are also available at Bpodstudios.com and in Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. I make no apologies for the fact that I am a

hunk for local wrestlers who are nice to me. I'm not sorry that I'm a Matt Taven honk. Right now,

I get to have a conversation with the most downloaded wrestler conversation in the 11-month

history of this podcast. He is the real

Ring of Honor World Champion. Matt Taven is in the Sports Hub Studios. Hi, Matt. Oh, man, isn't that

fantastic? The most downloaded, that's just another moniker I can add to the laundry list that

Matt Taven has. But, you know, it's the week of final battle

or we're approaching it quickly and I've done so many interviews. And I don't care that, you know,

that you love me because I love you. And that's why we're here. And that's why I chose to do this

because, man, after a slew of Melvin's asking me the same questions over and over again, I know we always have a good conversation. And the listeners certainly appreciate that because, again, you are the most downloaded conversation. People need to hear what I have to say. You know what I mean? I'm not going to go out there and give you the same generic answers like some of these wrestlers. I'm going to tell you how it is. I'm trying to work in the term Melvin a lot more. It's such a good and underutilized term. This Friday night, Ring of Honor presents final battle at the Hammerstein ballroom in New York. Matt Taven will be taking on Dalton Castle. And I have to ask, is Dalton

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